PMID: 18719791Aug 23, 2008Paper

The influence of programmed physical activity on blood pressure of hypertensive elderly patients on non-pharmacological treatment

Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
Weimar Kunz Sebba BarrosoFlávia Miquetichuc

Abstract

Assess the influence of physical activity on the blood pressure of hypertensive elderly patients on non-pharmacological treatment (NPT). The authors studied men and women, over 60 years, with stage I hypertension who were not using antihypertensive medication. These patients had been randomly allocated to one of two groups: Control Group (CG) - oriented to NPT; and Study Group (SG) - NPT and a program that included supervised physical activity consisting of 1-hour sessions, 3 times a week. Duration of the study was 6 months. Screening and follow-up tests every 3 months, at Visits 1, 2 and 3 included a clinical evaluation, ECG, a treadmill stress test, Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement (ABPM) and an Echocardiogram. The authors used the Friedman test for the evolutionary analysis of the intra-groups means and Student's t test to compare independent data between groups. Twenty-four patients were randomized in the SG (5 men) and 21 in the CG (4 men). The 6-month follow-up period was completed by 22 patients in the SG and 13 in the CG. Blood pressures found by the ABPM in V1, V2 and V3 were 134.2 +/-14.5, 136.1 +/-9 and 143.7+/-13.9 mmHg for Systolic Blood Pressure in the CG; and 135.6 +/-11.4, 138.7 +/-12.2 and 133.9 +/-8.5 mmH...Continue Reading

Citations

Nov 13, 2014·Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology·Bruna Camilo TuriHenrique Luiz Monteiro
Feb 26, 2021·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Ling-Ling LeeHui-Hsin Lin

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